IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955NH015001
  • User Pedon ID: S1955NH015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0465
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32993
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 42.9586105
  • Std. Longitude: -71.0274963
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Rockingham County, New Hampshire. John Stevens Farm, Great Hill, Brentwood, 1/4 mile south on side T road opposite the Stevens home.
  • Map Unit: 42B—Canton fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH015—Rockingham
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH015—Rockingham County, New Hampshire
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42071-H1—Kingston, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.T. Alexander, L.E. Garland, D. van der Voet, and W.H. Lyford.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    76 - 127

    - 51 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic contact

    densic materials

    aquic conditions

    0—23

    23—76

    53—127

    76—

    76—127

    76—127

    —23—

    —53—

    —74—

    —-

    —51—

    —51—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    8

    —

    —

    47.4

    —

    245

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak and moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03472. Particle sizes seem to be principally very fine sand, find sand or silt and the upper two horizons may have a substantial aeolian component. Common earthworms and night-crawlers are present, with some night-crawlers exposed in the upper B horizon. Contains less than 5 percent coarse skeleton.
    Bw1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.5 fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03473. Particle sizes are in about the same range as in the horizon above when dug out; unglazed pores occur on the interior of the subangular blocks. This horizon is variable in depth; on about half the sides of the soil pit it was only 2-3 inches thick. Contains 5 percent coarse skeleton.
    Bw2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse parts to medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03474. Contains 10-20 percent coarse skeleton in the 1-3 inch diameter range. Pores are unglazed.
    2Bw3—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; brittle; 3.0 pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03475. Contains 10-20 percent coarse skeleton; pores are glazed and coarse.
    2Cd1—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 0.5 pores; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03476. Contains 20-40 percent subrounded coarse skeleton mostly in the 1-3 inch diameter range; glazed pores on channels visible on the plate edges but hardly visible on the plate surfaces or interiors. Surface of plates (2.5Y 4/4) interiors are (2.5Y 5/4). The material in place resists removal with a shovel principally because the shovel blade cuts through coarse skeleton.
    2Cd2—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 40A03477. Like the above but deeper.